Australia category: 2401 books
An Indian Summer of Cricket
Reflections on Australia's Summer Game
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Catherine McGregor has been a soldier, a writer and broadcaster with a life long passion for cricket. She has played cricket for over five decades and remains active as a player, coach and commentator. She was a selector for the Prime MInister's XI for two seasons. Catherine used the Indian tour of...
by Josephine Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The Original Australians tells the story of Australian Aboriginal history and society from its distant beginnings to the present day. From the wisdom and paintings of the Dreamtime, to the first contacts between Europeans and indigenous Australians, right through to modern times, it offers an insight...
by Tom Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Early in 2014, Tom Davies set off with his wife Liz on a road trip in a Winnebago around the beautiful and furious landscapes of Australia. They both immediately fell in love with this vast country and the early chapters keep giving us sharp and often achingly funny snapshots of life in the lucky...
Spinning the Dream
Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
In Spinning the Dream, multi-award-winning historian Anna Haebich re-evaluates the experience of Assimilation in Australia, providing a meticulously researched and masterfully written assessment of its implications for Australia's Indigenous and ethnic minorities and for immigration and refugee policy.
A Case to Answer
The story of Australia's first European war crimes prosecution
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
On Australia Day 1990, a seventy-three-year-old man was plucked from the Adelaide suburbs and accused of helping massacre nearly nine hundred men, women and children in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The trial of Ivan Polyukhovich stretched across the world as witnesses gathered to testify from Ukraine, Israel...
Out of Luck
Poor Australians and social welfare 1788-1988
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1990
'The distribution of wealth is far more equal. To begin with, there is no poor class in the colonies. Comfortable incomes are in the majority, millionaires few and far between.'
This opinion, voiced a century ago by a British journalist on a tour of the colonies, sums up the widely-held and...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Adelaide is located in the West side of Australia, famous for wine tasting.
It's a beautiful and peaceful city where you can backpack around. People are friendly, with nice scenery for photo taking, or even diving!
If you decide to explore Adelaide, you can bring this ebook along....
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Do you like city life? Well, Sydney can be your next holiday destination! It's one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Sydney has one of the world famous construction - the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. You have to go and see personally to feel the magnificent....
Republicanism and Responsible Government
The Shaping of Democracy in Australia and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Despite remarkable similarities, little attempt has been made to compare the political development of colonial-era Australia and Canada. Both nations were born as British colonies and used violent and non-violent means to agitate for democratic freedoms. Republicanism and Responsible Government explores...
Islam Dreaming
Indigenous Muslims in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
From the Malay pearl divers of Broome to the Afghan camel drivers of the interior, Muslims have lived and worked in Australia for more than three centuries. This comprehensive account reveals the life stories of the Muslim pioneers and their descendants as they formed bonds with the indigenous people...
Australian Gold Rush - Another Birth of the Australian Nation?
Another Birth of the Australian Nation?
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject History - Australia, Oceania, grade: 100/100 Pkt, , language: English, abstract: This essay deals with the 'Gold Rush' in Australia at the middle of the 19th century, which nowadays, according the public opinion, belongs to the nation's folklore, and pursue...
by Chee Min Ng
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Annually, about 50,000 places are allocated by the Australian Government under the Skilled Independent stream.
This 2019 guide provides essential information for aspiring skilled independent migrants to Australia. It covers the Points-based Skilled Independent (subclass 189) visa. It covers eligibility...
by R. E. N. Twopeny
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1883. "Although most educated people know that Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide are populous towns, I should doubt whether one Englishman, who has not been to Australia, out of a hundred realizes that fact. I well remember that, although I had taken some trouble to read up information...
History of Africa, Asia and Australia
A Concise Outline
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Jack J. Kanski presents concise, illustrated histories covering a range of historical periods and providing readers with key information about events and people that have shaped the history of the world. In History of Africa, Asia and Australia, Kanski offers readers key information on the history...